spyderco laci szabo folder mod

Описание: when i saw the prototype of this folder i fell in love immediately as im sure most of you watching have. after finally biting the bullet and purchasing this knife i was a bit underwhelmed with its novel spring detent mechanism. it was extremely hard to deploy the blade out of box by thumb flicking, spyder dropping and even centrifugal force/gravity opening. i spent the last week carrying it daily and dare i say raping the knife by opening and closing in what felt like an excess of 2000 times. it slightly broke in and became smoother allowing me to deploy the blade with my thumb and a slight wrist flick like a lock back knife. i still wasnt satisfied, this was a compression lock afterall and i couldnt stand it not being as smooth as my other compression lock knives. i bit the bullet, voided my warranty and decided to break down the knife and molest its inner workings. my first idea was to slightly bend out the compression lock bar to relieve some of the excessive tension against the tang of the knife possibly making the knife smoother when opening. it was extremely stiff out of box so i was sure it would be fine with a little tweaking. that however was a feeble attempt as there was a steel plate on that side of the liner preventing any kind of over travel... why? i dont know lol. my next idea was to simply remove a few coils from the spring. ive done this with other things such as firearms and its a great cheap easy fast way of reducing spring tension. success, i advise you to go slow snipping half coils just as i did and reassembling the knife and testing function. the spring detent is all thats keeping the blade closed so dont trim off too much if youre a detent whore. i'd be glad to walk those who are interested through it and just drop me a pm if you are. happy modding :)